Top 100 Would The Quotes
#1. Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that?
Hillary Jordan
#2. If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.
William Kitchiner
#3. If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?
Virginia Woolf
#4. Often, no sooner would the mind begin to scale the heights of Mt. Knowledge than it would receive a frantic call from body base camp, demanding it return to oversee Operation Masturbate.
Jon Stewart
#5. Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,
Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,
Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down,
Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power
So scatter and consume them in his rage,
That not a man should live to rue their fall.
Christopher Marlowe
#6. I was grateful I could attach my feelings for him to something, even a scientific connection. Chemistry. I thought about the amount of energy we produced when we accidentally touched and had a brief vision of what it would be like if our lips met. Would the world explode around us?
Myra McEntire
#8. Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
Bill Vaughan
#9. If I could slam the door, I would. If I could walk to another room, I would. The best I can do is turn and head for the far corner of my cell. In prison, even goodbyes are beyond my control.
T.J. Forrester
#10. Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape madness? Did they grow accustomed to this? Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet?
Ted Chiang
#11. Oh, my stars! Think about Prince Kai! You could dance with Prince Kai!"
This made Cinder pause and squint into Iko's blinding light. "Why would the prince dance with me?"
Iko's fan hummed as she sought an answer. "Because you won't have grease on your face this time.
Marissa Meyer
#12. I bet it's the eleventh Commandment," murmured the priest, eyes down. "What would the eleventh Commandment be?" asked Doone, scowling. "Why not: 'THOU SHALT SHUT UP AND LISTEN'" said the priest. "Ssh.
Ray Bradbury
#13. Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?
Edward Hoagland
#14. Her ancestors would fight for her spirit, but so too would the white devils who had come to rule. They had taken first our land and then our souls.
Selina Siak Chin Yoke
#15. Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient association with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air.
David Abram
#16. I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney
#17. If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.
Elisabeth Elliot
#18. Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?
Ashwin Sanghi
#19. The chemistry was still there. To me, that was the biggest thing: Would the chemistry be there? Can we really go ahead and do this? And it was obvious within the first moment of plugging in the instruments that the magic was still there. It was a fantastic feeling.
Christine McVie
#21. Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making
trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.
George Bernard Shaw
#22. What would the Russian Bear and the American Eagle do if they discovered our paradise? Our secrecy is our shield!
Andrew Ryan
#23. But what if ... what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn't even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?
Stephenie Meyer
#24. I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone.
Denis Leary
#25. The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?
Lance Armstrong
#26. Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.
Thomas Aquinas
#27. But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding.
Cheryl Strayed
#28. Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Sydney Smith
#29. Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
Saint Augustine
#30. The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.
Frank Black
#31. Why would the gods care what happens to a child who doesn't care about himself?
Mark Lawrence
#32. How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?
James Buchanan
#33. Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?
Elizabeth Bowen
#34. Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
Gary Johnson
#35. 'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?
Charles Edwards
#36. What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battleground and theatre of infinite folly? Small as his world is, and short as his time, he has still in his little life down there far more than he can do.
H.G.Wells
#37. Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.
Richard B. Garnett
#38. Oh, the naivety of humanity, and insanity of the understanding.
But if the world understood, would the stupid be considered sane?
Larul Andrews
#39. What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.
Jerry Seinfeld
#40. Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
Victor Hugo
#41. Given her lack of experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers's only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president? Would the president have ever picked her if she had not been his lawyer, his close confidante, and his adviser?
Randy Barnett
#43. But would the perpetual flux and reflux of individualism reduce all personality to the level of mass consciousness? Would American culture remain neither bourgeois nor proletarian, but infantile? Would the moron, instead of the meek, inherit democracy?
Ellen Glasgow
#44. If the whole world followed you,
Followed to the letter,
Tell me if it followed you,
Would the world be better?
Unknown From Apples Of Gold
#45. And so Catherine's thoughts - as would the thoughts of any woman in such a quandary - turned to shopping: to the art dealers and markets of europe.
Robert Coughlan
#46. I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart?
Sebastian Barry
#47. Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?
Eugene B. Sledge
#48. If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#49. Now she knew where to find me, if it was written that we would meet again, we would. The important thing is to allow fate to intervene in our lives and to decide what is best for everyone.
Paulo Coelho
#50. In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#51. For any actor, when you're playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as creating a difference between the two characters. If they just looked the same, what would the point of that be?
Efren Ramirez
#52. Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.
Confucius
#53. What was left was sex in the head, as D.H.Lawrence called it. ... Where else would the human subject have sex but in the head? Sexual desire was a play of signifiers, an infinite determent and displacement of anticipated pleasure which the brute coupling of the signifieds temporarily interrupted.
David Lodge
#54. Do not let your anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other.
Stephen Richards
#55. Have we ridden forth to victory, only to stand at last amazed by an old liar with honey on his forked tongue? So would the trapped wolf speak to the hounds, if he could.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#56. What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?
Peter D. Kramer
#57. Would the hydrogen catch fire? Alek grasped the edge of the window, hardly feeling the broken glass against his palms.
"Deryn" he sobbed. Anything but this.
Scott Westerfeld
#58. But these threats do not move or alarm me, and for the best of all possible reasons; I do not believe that the gentlemen who make these threats intend to leave their places on this floor - nor, if they should, would the country suffer any loss. The
Cydnor Bailey Tompkins
#59. What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives?
Jeannine Parvati Baker
#60. Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
Thomas Jefferson
#62. What would your church (and the worldwide church) look like if everyone was as committed as you are? If everyone gave and served and prayed exactly like you, would the church be healthy and empowered? Or would it be weak and listless?
Francis Chan
#63. The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?
Kathleen Valentine
#64. We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#65. All of my early images were really visual experiments to me. They were attempts to answer unasked questions like, what happens if you put images of six men and six women together, or if we combined a monkey's image with a human, would the result approximate an image of early man?
Nancy Burson
#66. If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with his Corinthian readers by lying so blatantly.
Norman Geisler
#67. Would the people in her life still love her if they knew the whole truth about her? Perhaps, but would they love her the same?
Lacey Alexander
#68. In yesterday's post, I asked how many of you guys would have sex with a robot if it was indistinguishable from a hot human woman. About 95% of the hetero guys said they would. The other 5% expressed a strong preference for lying.
Scott Adams
#69. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? Would would this would be like without dogs?
Mary Oliver
#70. I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
Dan Ariely
#71. What will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?
Margaret Mitchell
#72. The best way to treat your wife is to treat her as Jesus would. The worst way to treat your wife is to treat her as the devil would.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#73. There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him ... Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?
Donna Lynn Hope
#74. My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;
I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!
Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
William Shakespeare
#75. Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#76. In our day the spirit of giving gifts plays a large role in commemorating the Christmas season. I wonder if we might profit by asking ourselves, What gifts would the Lord have me give to Him or to others at this precious season of the year?
Thomas S. Monson
#77. All our most honest toil succeeds only in unconscious moments. For how would the rose blossom if it were aware of the splendor of the sun!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#78. Would the soulless cosmos mourn the loss of a thing that never existed for eternities past?
C.J. Anderson
#79. You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick
#80. What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
Angela Carter
#81. To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
Abraham Kaplan
#82. You told me the Utes were gonna kill you for it. And how would the Cotterell's know anything bout it? And come looking for you?" "Because Runs-With-Scissors was drunk and told everyone at the Crescent Junction tavern, that's why.
David J. West
#83. What would the world be without him, and those like him?
Janet Morris
#84. I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz
#85. When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#86. No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.
Ross Douthat
#87. Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do - send for reinforcements?
Robert Breault
#88. Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it,
Karl Rove
#89. What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?
Helen Keller
#90. Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?
Fanny Fern
#91. My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I don't know.
Chace Crawford
#92. I killed the cheating bastard. Who knows, maybe if I'd done it a few days sooner, I could have prevented all of this. But where would the fun be in that? I would have missed out on all this," she said, taking her hands off the steering wheel spreading her arms wide.
Mark Tufo
#93. Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#94. How would the tragedy changes us? How would WE change us ?
Gayle Forman
#95. It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera?
Bruce Sutter
#96. Ham rubbed his chin. I don't know, Breeze. It's an interesting question. By influencing her emotions, did you take away her ability to choose? If, for instance, she were to kill or steal while under your control, would the crime be hers or yours?
Brandon Sanderson
#97. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#98. There are two apples, one is green and the other is red. Which apple would the wise man choose? The answer is: I'll take the one you didn't choose. You see, you are the fool here, because I poisoned the first apple!
Jarod Kintz
#99. Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
Nathan Myhrvold
#100. If I wrote the word flower,
would it still grow like a flower?
If I wrote a poem concerning a river,
would the water still flow in the eyes of the reader?
Zakariya Amataya
